Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-05
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary Of the
important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget Of News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
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The London Times. commenting on A.
torn>y-General Garland's opinion in reference
to the alien act says: "Our chief surprise ~
this recent law is the mistrustit evinces of the
acclimating power of America which might
have leen supposed to he too sure of he1
ability TO absorb the foreign element to COM
pei them TO begin by offering reluctant allegi-
| ance
The Pone has decided there is no ground
for lapal interference with the knights of
Labor question He has conveyed the an
nouncement OF this decision 10 Cardinal Glib
bons.
C e. Belle, special pension examiner at
Cincinnati, las been dismls>ed for using at a
meeting of a German literary society in Gin
cinnati, in the hearing of large compa v,
grossly insulting language toward tho Presi-
dent Of the United States.
| Assistant asher Meline. Of the Treas
ury, has gone tn Cincinnati with force of
clerks to examine the condition of the sub
treasury at that city,
-lhe comptroller of the currency having
rec ived information that the Henrietta Ma
tional Bank of Henrietta, Tex, has suspended,
has directed the State Examiner to take charge
OF its affairs
Lord Charles Beresford, a junior lord of
admiralty has resigned on account of a
tritling breach of etiquette which occurrs d
during the naval review.
specials to the Pioneer Press show that
the storm of Tuesday night, the 2Gth, was
unusually severe and destructive in Dakota
and Minnesota. Many dwellings and out
buildings were damaged or destroyed and
crops badly injured At Rapid City, D. l.,
hail covered the ground to depth of four
inches and did $4,000 worth of damage
freight train was struck by lightning and
forty mules killed.
VIM. Roller, wholesale liquor dealer of
Canton, ID. T., has been arrested for selling
liquor without county license An attempt
Will be made to close the wholesale louo,
houses ana brewerics at that city uader the
new local option law, which prohibits whole
sailing in county where no cense is grant
ed. The presumption of The prosecution is
that the law is now in effect rela i've to whole
sailing.
A young electrician living near Cincin-
natl hus nearly perfected a trumpet for tele-
phonins at SCI. With this trumpet converse
ton IN an ordinary tone of voice was carried
on between persons four and quarter miles
apart BY listening to the whistle of train
and tracing it it was found That the instru
ment has a vel, defined range Of tweaty-slx
mises-that is, q loud sound like = locomo-
tive whistle Or the rumbl ng of q train can be
distinct y Ii ard at distance of ,hirteen
miles in every direction. Conversation was
readily carried on between two gentlemen on
high hills on opposite sides OF the Ohio river
about -four and a half miles apart Tests
made on the water showed that the trumpet
was even more avail able than on the Ind
The instrument will be patented as soon as
perfected.
One Of the witnesses in the Chicago Doodle
case's Fred w. Bpper, meat contractor who
is supposed to have very sensational testi-
mony to disclose. Bpper testified the otaer
day that he had been supplying Cook county
with meat since 1885, The second
year he was Obliged to pay the commissioners
$4,000 for the contract The next year he
paid the chairman of the boaru $500 for vot
ing fer his contract He paid $4,000 for the
year 1883, and il 1854 and 1885 the contract
cost him $4,000 Bippcr further testified
that during 1885 he acted as agent to collect
for the commissioners a. sessments from sub
contractors who supplied milk and bread.
The money obtained was divided between
Niessen, Mcdonald, Leyden, Klchm and Nc
clanglley. Bip er said the grocery firm
which had received the contract paid HIM 10
per cent of all sales to the county.